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The Web Site Displayer widget displays a Web site.
You can either configure the Web Site Displayer widget to display
a particular Web site by specifying a fully qualified URL, or you can wire
the Web Site Displayer widget to receive a URL string from another
widget on the page.

NOTE: To download PDFs of the original, IBM-authored widget help in
various languages, click here.

Configuration tips

To display a Web site, configure the widget to point
to a valid URL on the Web. The URL must be fully qualified, for example
http://www.ibm.com. Note that the Web Site Displayer widget does
not send content to other widgets on the page. It only receives content
to display a Web site.

Events

See the following table to learn which events the Web
Site Displayer widget can send and receive:

Send

Receive

This widget does not send content.

displayHTML -- event of type string that receives
and displays a URL from another widget

Example scenario

Goal:
Display customer Web sites from data received from the Customer List
widget.

Steps required:

Drag the Web Site Displayer and Customer
List widgets onto the page.

Hover your cursor over the Web Site Displayer widget,
and click the wiring icon to
open the wiring interface. Do the following steps:

Click the Receive tab.

In the Select content to receive section, select string
from displayHTML.

In the Select a widget to send content section, select
Customer List.

In the Select content to send section, select string
from URL.

Click Done.

In the Customer List widget, click different customer
names to display their Web sites in the Web Site Displayer widget.